“Let’s not play games with this one. You don’t need no training to stop choking a man saying ‘I can’t breathe’,” Sharpton shouted to a packed church. “You don’t need no cultural orientation to stop choking a man saying ‘I can’t breathe.’ You need to be prosecuted.”

The reticence of police departments to prosecute officers commiting murder 'in the line of duty' is well known - it's as bad anywhere as It is in the US but incidents seem a lot more common there and this one is particularly baffling as the evidence seems irrefutable

Then again there seems to be some kind of acceptance of murder as being collateral to order in the US if their drone programmes and military tactics are anything to judge by

There's a part of me that thinks we're staring down the barrel of the dystopian fascisto military police state and there's another part that sees this as a 'good 'ol fashion lynching'

Either way .... Just urgh

And I'm a white guy who lives in Sweden - can't imagine how it must feel to be a black guy living ...well, anywhere that the authorities are white

what exactly a police officer would have to do to actually get indicted when involved with the deaf of a black citizen. Usually I'd think up some amusing hyperbolic example here but this is too fucking horrifying.

We now live in a world where clickbait websites think calling the police on a black guy for having his hands in his pockets is 'reasonable' just because a police officer turned up and didn't shoot him in the face. Why the fuck did a police officer show up at all?!